Remington Arms threatens to pull plant out of NY in response to Bloomy-backed gun bill

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One of the world’s major gun manufacturers is threatening to pull its plant out of New York over a gun bill pushed by Mayor Bloomberg.

Remington Arms Company, in a recent letter to Gov. Cuomo, said it may be forced to bail on the Empire State if a law requiring bullet casings to carry unique markings is enacted.

Supporters argue the technology, known as microstamping, would help solve gun crimes. Detractors say it’s unreliable, easily tampered with and costly.

Remington has a manufacturing plant that employs more than 1,000 workers in the village of Ilion, about 90 miles west of Albany.

“Mandating firearms micro- stamping will restrict the ability of Remington to expand business in the Empire State,” company chief strategy officer Stephen Jackson Jr. wrote to Cuomo.

“Worse yet, Remington could be forced to reconsider its commitment to the New York market altogether rather than spend the astronomical sums of money needed to completely reconfigure our manufacturing and assembly processes.”

Jackson insisted that law enforcement, gun retailers and “law-abiding consumers throughout New York — if not the entire country” would be directly affected.

Senate bill sponsor Jose Peralta dismissed Remingtons warning as “just another tactic being used to try and block microstamping, which is supported by many crime-fighters.”

He said gun manufacturers didn’t leave California and Massachusetts when those states enacted ballistic identification rules.

Cuomo during his 2010 campaign called microstamping a “common-sense” and “pro-law enforcement” gun safety law.

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I humbly suggest Remington take a long hard look at Oklahoma City, situated at the crossroads of I35 & I40, in a right to work state. If this plant is also the source of their .22 rim-fire ammunition, I also humbly suggest they take the opportunity to invest in some new tooling because it’s the worst performing .22 ammo around and has been for years.

How many gun manufactorers are based out of California?? I cant think of any of merit.

Bring thier business to KY, we can use more manufactoring jobs and the states constitution protects much more than NY ever will

Az already has Ruger. We would be happy to have Smith & Wesson too.

Micro stamping is only effective on automatic weapons that eject the casings. Revolvers do not eject a casings. So the this requirement will not cover all the guns in circulation.

Even if the casings are ejected, there’s a habit in some in the competition shooting scene who round up as many of the spent casings as possible for reuse or recycling which further makes micro-stamping kinda of a silly idea.

Where the heck did I get Smith and Wesson from? I meant Remington.
There is so much brass floating around out there, it would be easy to get around this.

New Hampshire is a fine location in a free state.

Tag in with Ruger, and move some people to Connecticut and kill off their million order requests… then go all out in shared or new facilities on closed bases in NH.

No income tax, few minorities, nice land, dispersed population centers… if you like snow…. go.

I’m reminded of the history of Burroughs… I used to work for them. In the early days of the company, the founder got annoyed with his location for some reason. So he packed up the factory on a train along with the workers and families and moved the whole shebang to Detroit. Not that I would recommend that these days. :-/ At least not the Detroit part.

@Jim S:

Just wait until the federal government, at New York’s request, enacts a law or directive preventing a company from moving it’s base of operations.

@johngalt:
Hmmm…. I seem to have read something like that once in a really big fat novel. 😉

@Jim S:

I have a theory about that novel. I believe that liberal/progressives, despite their protestations and criticism of it, actually are huge fans of it. However, instead of seeing Galt as the hero, they revere the government instead, and see all of the fictionalized government edicts and acts within it as good ideas.

@johngalt:

You could be right. I remember once commenting on a libertarian forum once that I didn’t believe any real people could be as vile and stupid as the antagonists in “Atlas Shrugged”. Well, I’m proved wrong once again. :-/